By far, one of the best times of the year is finishing a year and heading into a new one.  It’s that time away from work where time for family and friends can take precedence.  It’s easier to find a time for self reflection and goal setting.  And it’s the time of year where bloggers from the testing community post their own personal reflections of the previous year and share the goals they have coming into the new year.  This season is an excellent period of time to find inspiration and motivation.  Be sure to check out the “Personal Reflections” section of this post.  It will not disappoint.

And….here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of December 27th, 2020 – January 2nd, 2021.

Testing

• 2021 Software Testing Trends – Promise of a Better Future – Anand Bagmar – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/12/29/2021-software-testing-trends-promise-of-a-better-future/
• A tester’s feedback on system feedback – Matthew Bretten – http://bestofthetest.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-testers-feedback-on-system-feedback.html
• All About Regression Testing – Laveena Ramchandani – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/12/28/all-about-regression-testing/
• Applying the Agile Testing Quadrants to Continuous Delivery and DevOps Culture – Part 1: Working Towards Continuous Delivery- Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin – https://agiletester.ca/applying-the-agile-testing-quadrants-to-continuous-delivery-and-devops-culture-part-1-working-towards-continuous-delivery/
• IoT Testing Strategy – Vishala Yadav – https://medium.com/globant/iot-testing-strategy-80e3112c46de
• Perspective – the secret weapon we seldom use while testing – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/the-secret-weapon-while-testing/
• Test Slow to Go Faster – Jason Arbon – https://jarbon.medium.com/test-slow-to-go-faster-4ba065b6ba4d